Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’

A very interesting thing happened this evening (28th July). DawnTV was airing Arshad Sharif's talk show Reporter. The topic today was growth of Islamic militancy, especially Jundullah within Pakistan's military and its connection with Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. He started by showing a documentary on how Jundullah started in [...]

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While a number of valuable articles have been posted on the LUBP criticising the facebook ban, here is an alternative, thought provoking perspective by Muhammad Amir Khakwani. Unlike our tradition, we are placing this newspaper article on the front page in order to invite a constructive debate on this perspective. Also provided below Khakwani's [...]

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.” - Henry Steele Commager Pakistan is a developing nation where digitally networked technologies and new media platforms are emerging, and where a struggle to establish democratic norms [...]

Source Himal South Asian Magazine: A couple of months ago, when self-styled ‘security analyst’ Zaid Hamid’s anti-India vitriol started getting out of hand, a group of Pakistanis got together on Facebook to condemn his hate speech and calls for war against ‘Hindu Zionists’. There were jokes about ‘Jihad-e-Facebook’ and [...]

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There is a ‘mass madness’ ranging from TV talk shows to headlines of News Papers and debate on internet. Charged workers of religious organisations are out in streets of Pakistan. As Malaysian are relatively more religious people as compared to Pakistani’s and share the same Prophet. I was thinking that today country would be choked like [...]

Back in 1984, General Zia-ul-Haq conducted a referendum to legitimize his rule. The referendum was based on one question: “Do you want to continue the process of Islamization in Pakistan ?”, and the polity was given choices to tick either Yes or No. Now who could say ‘No’ to that kind of a question, but if they said ‘Yes’, which 99 [...]

BBC 'concern' over Urdu FM news ban in Pakistan The BBC World Service has expressed concern that 24 out of its 34 FM partner stations in Pakistan have been told to halt BBC Urdu news broadcasts. The decision was relayed to the BBC by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority which says it was acting on orders from the [...]

By Omar Khattab in Lahore Last week Brigadier Hussain Abbas was killed by the Taliban in the Waziristan area. The newspapers wrote as usual about the “martyrdom” of an army officer at the hands of the “militants” and not the Taliban. But the electronic media was even more curt. The news anchors vaguely spoke about the martyrdom of [...]

PTA orders blockade of political webpages, discussion forumsFriday, January 02, 2009By Urooj ZiaKarachiThe Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued directives in the last week of December to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), ordering them to block a list of six webpages on the grounds that they were “harmful for the integrity of the [...]

The man who survived Pakistan's GestapoSaturday, December 13, 2008Rahimullah YusufzaiBusinessman Munir Mengal's disclosures about his 22 months' detention in Pakistan are shocking and painful. The only known reason for his arrest and torture at the hands of former president Pervez Musharraf's government was his intention to launch a Balochi [...]